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Google has made aggressive price cuts to its high speed, local SSDs that are attached to on-demand Google Compute Engine virtual machines (VMs). Costs will be slashed by 63%, which is a significant saving for businesses opting to use VMs on the company's cloud platform....CLOUDPRO.CO.UKREAD MORE

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